In recent years,“stance” has become increasingly an important locus for research within the
functional, pragmatic, cognitive, sociolinguistic and interactional paradigms. Stance may be …

This paper examines how hearsay evidential markers in Korean are used within the
pragmatic domain to serve a wide range of epistemic and politeness functions. In particular …

In this dissertation I provide an account of the distribution of Korean clause-typing markers
from the perspective of a formal typological model, the Universal Spine Hypothesis …

This paper discusses the emergence of some of the discourse markers of agreement
(DMAs) in Korean. This paper shows the processes that DMAs have historically undergone …

This paper investigates evidentiality in Korean. Korean has four grammatical markers of
evidentiality: Past Sensory-te-, Present Sensory-ney, Inferred-keyss-, Reported-tay. While …

A range of theoretical approaches to functional markers (including enclitics, particles,
complementizers, and modals) denoting “speaker was told that/it is said that/they say” have …

In this paper, we investigate how Korean-ki and-m nominalization constructions have come
to also express speaker stance. We first identify the semantic distinctions between Korean-ki …

The present paper investigates how the Korean sentence-final particle-tani is used to mark
mirativity. More interestingly, this paper discusses how Korean speakers or writers employ …

In Aikhenvald's (2004: 17) monograph Evidentiality (with examples drawn from over 500
languages), evidentiality is found in about a quarter of the languages of the world. Evidential …

This paper investigates the stances that Korean speakers routinely take in conversation
when facing incongruities in reality, facts, and expectations, and it identifies the roles these …